Global Category Senior Manager, Transportation- Cold Chain

Role Summary

Global Senior Manager, Global Transportation – Cold Chain. Responsible for leading procurement transportation with a focus on temperature-controlled logistics, driving category strategies, supplier relationships, and cross-functional collaboration to achieve financial, quality, and service targets.

Responsibilities

• Develop and drive the Procurement vision for, with and through the stakeholder community.
• Develop and implement category strategies that address the unique requirements of temperature-controlled logistics, including regulatory compliance, packaging innovation, and risk mitigation across global cold chain networks.
• Collaborate with internal Quality, Regulatory, and Supply Chain teams to ensure end-to-end integrity of temperature-sensitive products, leveraging advanced monitoring technologies and data analytics to drive performance and reliability.
• Interface directly with CEO‚Äôs and other supplier leadership to assure alignment of JNJ‚Äôs objectives are met, including quality, reliability, innovation and cost.
• Understand operational considerations. Identify business demand requirements and partner with Business Engagement Leads to deliver annual value improvements and drive competitive advantage.
• Understand long-range requirements of the business partners and engage in strategic planning and partnering to ensure alignment.
• Deliver on financial, service, reliability, quality, innovation, and growth commitments.
• Build and maintain relationships throughout JNJ that result in dynamic interactive dialogue on a broad range of perspectives and information critical to the development of optimal approaches and solutions.
• Develop deep supplier relationships with strategic suppliers including data review and analysis, performance management and development and improvement of end-to-end value, and bring innovation to the business.
• Identify, develop and direct the implementation of Procurements goals and category strategies, based on deep subject matter expertise and an informal understanding of industry/market dynamics.
• Escalate issues that may impact the Global Procurement organization.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor‚Äôs Degree
• Required: 10+ years of related experience
• Broad-based understanding of business operations and core procurement areas (Spend Management: Category Management and Supplier Management).
• Leadership, communication, influencing, collaboration and talent development skills.
• Ability to prioritize requests and propose effective cost/customer service alternatives.
• Judgment in developing new approaches and resolving issues.
• Customer orientation with ability to build and maintain relationships within J&J management.
• Project management skills and business acumen.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to continuously improve the organization.

Skills

• Core procurement skills: supplier management and performance, supply market analysis, Category Management, Procurement Excellence.
• Expertise in cold chain logistics and temperature-controlled transportation, including GDP, thermal packaging solutions, and real-time temperature monitoring systems.
• Credibility with internal customers and supplier community.
• Influence and alignment across stakeholders (businesses, Procurement LT, Marketing, R&D, Supply Chain).

Education

• Bachelor‚Äôs Degree (required)

Additional Requirements

• No explicit travel or physical demands were stated as mandatory beyond general leadership responsibilities; not included here as travel/physical details were not specified as essential in the provided content.